Supporting device for wringers



1,638,242 Aug. 9, W CHAMBERLAIN SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WRINGERS Filed March 1927 .L. Chambzrzazn Patented Aug. 9, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

" FLOYD L. cnmnnnnam, or wxrnnnoo, Iowa.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WRINGERS.

Application filed March 21, 1827. Serial No. 177,054.

My invention relates to supporting devices for wringers and the like, and the object of my improvement is to provide means for detachably assembling a wringer with a supporting gear-casing, whereby the wringer may be easily and quickly mounted upon or demounted from the gear-casing.

This object'I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a metal frame wringer mounted detachably upon a gear-casing by my improved adapting means, Fig. 2 being a perspective view, fragmental, of the adapting means portion-of the gear-casing, on an enlarged scale. I

The wringer 1 may be of any type or construction, and onan end portion of its frame standards 2 may vhave above and below spaced pairs of apertured lugs 3 and 4.

Bolts 7 and 5 respectively traverse the apertures of said pairs of lugs, the bolt 5 seating a nut 6, while a handled nut 9 is seated on the bolt 7 for manual use.

The numeral 16 denotes a gear-casing with side opening covered by a closure plate 17. This gear-casing has a tubular depending part 18 fixed upon a supporting base-plate 19, such as is mounted u v on the top part of a washing machine. e end wall of the gear-casing is apertured at 13 facing the wringer end standard 2, this aperture being traversed by a grooved end of a shaft section 14 carrying one of the gears in the casing, and the grooved end receives a mating projection on the abutting end of the shaft section which is the central shaft 15 of thelower wringer roll. These shaft connecting ends are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, while the grooved end of the shaft section 14 is shown in Fig. 2. The gear-casing 16 has inc'losing flanges 1O projecting into contact with said standard 2. The side flanges are grooved transversely at the top to supply downwardor out of these recesses 11, the bolt 7 servng as a pintle in the depressed inner ends of the upper recesses 12, the weight of the wringer keeping the bolt 7 from being lifted out from the recesses by accidental contacts or the use of insuflicient force. It should also be noted, that because of the overhang of the wringer relatively to the gear-casing 16, that the lower bolt 5 is thrust into the grooves or recesses 11 and is held there to pppose ordinary thrusts in a contrary direc- The wringer is mounted quickly upon the gear-casing by tilting the former to insert the bolt 7 into the upper recesses 12, then swinging the wringer toward the gear-casing to engage the lower bolt 5 with the lower recesses 11. The nuts 9 and 5 may then be turned upon their bolts to clamp the apertured projections 4 and 3 respectively upon the opposite side flanges of the gear-casing.

The wringer may be easily removed by loosening the nuts on said bolts, and then swinging the wringer outwardly tiltingly to release the lower bolt 5 from the lower straight recesses 11 before the upper bolt 7 is lifted out of the upper recesses 12.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with a gear-casing, of

a wringer frame having vertically spaced pairs of apertured lugs, bolts traversing said apertures, nuts mounted on said bolts, and said gear-casing having spaced flanges to fit between said lugs, the flanges having at the top downwardly curved opposite recesses and at the bottom straighthorizontal opposite recesses to removably seat said bolts, whereby the upper recesses serve as seating hollows for the upper bolt as a pintle, and the lower bolt is retained in-the lower recesses by the weight of the overhanging wringer.

2. The combination with a gear-casing, of a wringer ositioned in juxtaposition thereto, said wringer having an end standard in its frame abutting upon the gear-casing and having apertured lugs receiving the abutting part of the gear-casing matingly therebetween and in fitting contact, said gear-casing having a downwardly curved seat to receive 7 nut on said bolt to secure the bolt in said traversing the apertures of sai lugs and lower lugs, the latter bolt being held in enseated in said curved seat removably, a nut gagement with the lower recessed seat by the 19 on said bolt to secure it in said lugs, said gravity of the overhanging wringer. gear-casing having a recessed seat to receive In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

:1 bolt traversing the apertured lower pair 7 of said lugs, a bolt in said apertures, and a FLOYD L. CHAMBERLAIN.

a bolt as a pintle for the wrin er, a bolt 

